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Featuring the best in the Evolution of Jeans thread - an attempt has been made to keep the selection as wide as possible, so some jeans with less impressive wear have been added as the best examples of that particular model.

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6 months and one wash. they look a lot better in person and when worn but im still kinda dissapointed in them. whatever, ill wear em out more before the second wash and start a new pair that will hopefully look better.

update

these are the better pics of my apcs. this is after 8 months and 2 washes.

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I thought these were pretty good jeans. My 1933 501s did fade too fast for me, but I did wash these more than any jeans I've had before. The 1901 repros, which have quite a dark finish, with Japanese fabric, fade beautifully and keep their indigo. WIth the 47s, I gave them a quick rinse - which got rid of some of the shrinkage - and machine-washed them around six months in. I don't think they've lost much indigo compared with, for example, my Euro Lees which have an authentic vintage-style fade.

HEre they are next to new 1947s, I think from this season.

And here, for comparison's sake, is a pair of original 40s 501s whihc went for a good price on eBay recently. These 30s and 40s jeans have a very black look to them... I think the reissues are pretty close.

I think if i'd washed the 47s more they would have been fine. I personally like the dark look so was in no hurry for them to fade. Next time around I would soak them overnight; because there was still a fair amount of starch and sizing present, the denim was brittle, so there are breaks in the cotton partiuclarly around the honeycombs.

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Just thought I would add a little. Here are my canes. I don't exactly remember how long I've been wearing them (close to seven or eight months). I haven't been wearing them much lately. The have been washed almost once a month.

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the water was really cold which is good cause i didnt lose too much indigo. but they were in the for roughly 8 hours

they ahd been worn for 6-8 months, im unsure when is tarted wearing them, i bought them july of last year, but i didnt wear them around and to school in the begining of the year for fear of being mistaken as some emo kid in tight pants. but once i won over peoples trust as a 100% keeper of real i felt comfortable wearing tight pants around people and am never mistaken for emo or whatever

that all took place around september or so

but i know its pretty stupid i should be able to wear whatever i want around whoever i want and i should be judged by the content of my character, but i was just a self conscious freshmen at the time, i really dont care anymore.

i was in bennington vermont at the time of the washing

right next to manchester which is full of really nice outlets, burberry, versace, gap, used to be a levis but now its closed, polo and some more

and near dorset which has a really nice theatre festival

there you go.

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APC NS

i dont know how many washes

purchased 2 years ago, shit its been a while.

fell out of rotation quite a bit but still get some wear.

this is how they fit: excuse the balls, they were pretty tight aftr the wash.

without further ado

nitric acid burn

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4 washes i think, first at 6 months, second a month or so later, then about 2-3 months later came the second, another long peroid of time, 3rd wash and 4th wash came after an even longer peroid of time. i dont have any pre wash apc ns pics. i thought i did oh well neever mind.

they are RRDS. and have been with me for quiet sometime. i boughtg them a 30 and now they are maybe 31.5 or maybe even bigger.

heres the other 2 pictures, i couldnt post it all in one post because of the image limit.

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I've been waiting with these to post a comprehensive "before and after" thread. These are some Jean Shops that I got in January. I ride my bike quite a bit in them and the crotch is fading a bunch. They didn't seem to do anything, but now they're fading like crazy and getting all streaky. I haven't really kept a diary per se, but every time I wash them I've taken a pic of them. They started off as a pretty stiff 1 wash. As of right now, they're really really soft, (and I did starch them at first, but not anymore) so I think any future wear is going to be much less defined. I tried to let in as much natural light as I could when I took the pics, and I also adjusted the levels in photoshop.

5 months (after being washed with that sugarcane denim treatment in a machine) Unfortunately the honeycombs have been shifting like crazy and (I'm ashamed to admit this) but I tried folding them to get them to reform where they were originally, but there are some areas where they started creasing totally differently and faded kind of off...

today (almost 8 months) They haven't been washed since june, but I just spent a week cleaning out my mom's disgusting basement wearing them and I did some yard work in them and sweated my balls off. I don't know if it's the light or what, but it seems the fading has accelerated a lot from the last set of pics.

I let them go way too long (yes, really) I wanted to wash them for a couple of weeks, but things have been fairly crazy on my end. I've had these almost exactly a year. Been washed maybe 4-5 times. They're getting really blue.

probly did 3 warm washes at first, cos the instructions recomended ( they bled like a bitch at first) , then 8months wear, lots of bmxing, then swam in sea in em. Photographed with a flash so in reality theyre a darker hue.

update

the second two pics are a truer representation of the hue, particularly the shadded areas.